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auto clone backup?

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Kryogen

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Is there a way to keep an auto clone backup?
Right now I do reg backups using windows, but if my ssd breaks, I would just like to boot using the backup HDD, and be back to normal in 2 minutes.

Is there a program that will do incremental "clones" to keep it all up to date and ready for a ssd fail to just swap?
 
RAID1 then do regular weekly full clones with incremental backups on a external hard drive daily via a scheduled script. Macrium Reflect (paid version) or Paragon equivalent products will get you that far.


Don't over complicate it.
 
macrium reflect can do incremental clones?
Could work fine, just a dayly incremental clone would work for me. keeps a copy of everything just in case, plug the clone and good to go in 5 minutes.

This program can do it?
 
Kryogen said:
macrium reflect can do incremental clones?
Could work fine, just a dayly incremental clone would work for me. keeps a copy of everything just in case, plug the clone and good to go in 5 minutes.

This program can do it?
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It does incremental backups. Meaning if you made one full image a week and then for the next 6 days did incremental backups you'd have to restore the week old image and all incremental backups have to be intact.

The way you're making it sound is you want a perfect cloned bare-metal image on a secondary hard drive that is basically constantly backing up data so that if one fails you can only have a couple minutes of missed data on the second hard drive. That would cause a lot of software overhead 24/7, which is why I recommend just running RAID1 if you want the least downtime with data being up to the second of a crash on the other drive. Then making a true once a week image that should only be necessary if both drives failed. Either way images get compressed about 50% of what the actual hard drive size usually is (100GB actual to 50GB compressed) and most processors should easily not make this a bottleneck when restoring. With 1GbE or USB 3.0 it literally takes 10-15 minutes max to restore 110GB of data that I've tested. About 45 minutes with USB 2.0 and it would probably be faster than all of those if you had two internal drives, one being used while the other is only serving backups.
 
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I dont really want raid. I dont need by the minute data protection.

I just want a backup to restore my data if my SSD dies, and I want my backup to update every evening.

Will probably just schedule an image backup every night and be done with it. that way if my ssd dies I can just boot using reflect and restore to a new drive.

The issue with the clone is that I get 2 actual drives containing the boot partitions and such for my system and I dont want to screw with that.
 
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